Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-22
sOUTH CAROLINA.

The amount of phosphate royalty due
the State for the quarter ending Feb. %,
1897, was SAT, 403 SO, divided as follows:
COosaw Mining Company, $2l,919 46; Oak
Point Mining Company, 1851 40; South
Carolina Phosphate Company Cimited),
1921 40; Farmers Phosphate Company,
$6l6; sea Island Chemical Company,
$7,929 %; Carolina Mining Company,
S9,4l0 10; ". Il. Seward Il Co, $2,672 II;
}. G. Taylor, 1896; II. B. jennings,
Sl,G30; J. b. Tiedeman, 1924; John Han
sen. $40+ 90; G. .. Campbell, so. Total,
$47, 400 So. OF this amount $43, 267 IS mas
been paid, leaving balance unpaid Of
81, 1876.
Rev. II. A. Mickle, for more than five
years the faithful and efficient pastor Of
the Edisto Island Presbyterian church.
presented his resignation on Sunday last,
requesting the congregation to unite with
him In petitioning Presbytery TO dissolve
the pastoral relations, to take effect ON
May 10, assigning as his reasons that the
health OF his family Imperatively de-
mands change OF climate, and stating
also that for the sake of educating his
children 1t is necessary to remove where
they might enjoy the advantages OF public
schools. Mr.. Mickle's resignation was
accepted with the warmest expressions
OF regret on the part OF his friends.
ne illiE dllOH II JU6 case Oh IL. -. LSDDy
against w. II. Ahrens, PROPRIETOR of the
Summerville Herald. mas been settled by
the recent decision of the Supreme Court.
The SUIT was originally brought by Capt.
hi. >. Lobby, OF SummerVIlIe, against Mr.,
Ahrens as having wrOngtully repre-
scented himself to be member of a stock
company organized for the purpose of
publishing the Herald, and on the strength
OF which representation Capt. Lobby in
rod hon
case was first adiudicated in the Circuit
Court of Colleton county, in which YER
dict was given for the plaintiff Mr.
Ahrens appealed, and, as stated, an
opinion in the matter has just been deliy-
cred by the Supreme Court affirming the
verdict below. 1t Is most likely that the
sale of the plant of the Herald will now
take place 10 satisfy the judgment OF
Capt. Lobby.
Last summer one of the most destruc-
tive fires which has visited Columbia in
the past few years broke out IN the ice
factory of G. e. Habenicht, on Plain
street, and as the supply OF water was
very limited at that time the interior OF
| the factory with all the ice machinery
was DESTROYED. Fortunately MIR. Habe-
! nicht was able to bear the loss without
embarrassm, ent and express ed his de ter
mination TO rebuild, but IN place of the
Olu factory 10 erect one OF the best equip
| ped ice factories in the South. He i'm
medlately ordered new machinery of the
latest and most improved patents. The
! interior OF the factory building has been
entirely repaired, the machinery has
been made and taken to Columbia in
fourteen cars, has all been put into posi-
tion and today the factory is ready for
work. The building is 100 feet long by
30 feet wide. The boiler is an immense
affair and has been tested as high as 800
! pounds pressure. The capacity or the
new factory il twenty-five tons a day,
! against SIX and half tons by the old
machine. The cost OF the new machinery
and the repairs is between $4,000 and
| $50 600.